Could Urine Be Tomorrow's Oil?

Could Urine Be Tomorrow's Oil?

Urine used to be the flavour of the month – literally, sometimes. In the dim and distant past, urine was used to flavour ale and glaze pastries, as
a floor cleaner and as a source of saltpeter for gunpowder. People even used fermented pee – or lant – as a breath freshener...

....With an annual global production rate of trillions of litres, this is a technology that could help change the world.

Pee Power

Think of it - trillions of gallons of liquid waste turned into usable electricity. Move over Tesla.

Equally important, all those drugs and pharmaceuticals in everyone's pee no longer will end up in our rivers, ground water and oceans - they'll be
burned - and we'll get to breathe the residues.

Chances are good the airborne pharmaceutical concentrations won't be as high as in our water - we might kill a few birds but we'll save a LOT of
fishies - PLUS, all those welfare recipients who've had their benefits unfairly pulled just might be reinstated.

How little energy did they actually produce? It certainly would be great if we could power things off of urine. Cheapen up energy costs, help ease
our environmental impact, give us excuses to drink copious amounts of alcohol...

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